Here, at last, is a collection of Nancy Banks Smith's writing so we can bask in her bone-dry humour, 'I dearly love to see actors drowning, it is so obviously not quite what they had in mind when they were at RADA'; wisdom, 'Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman'; and top drawer prose, 'Mandelson seems to pick his words with tweezers while wearing latex gloves'. Organised by theme, from Soap and Glory to Murders Most Horrid, TV Dinners to Guilty Pleasures, this book is a blissful trip down TV memory lane and reminds us why Nancy Banks Smith is one of our best-loved writers.